Bogus/waylaid album projects

Brian Eno - My Squelchy Life

Minutemen & Richard Meltzer were going to make an album right when D Boon passed, eventually the idea kind of came to fruition with the Spielgusher record

There are a ton of these in Hip Hop btw. Obv Detox, but also stuff like I Can't Feel My Face and the Ghostface/MF Doom album. Also, a lot of completed albums that took forever to be or never were released--Black Bastards, that Saigon album, Large Professor- The Album

One of the inside jokes of The Whitey Album was that Sonic Youth had been talking about covering the whole White Album for a while, in response to Pussy Galore's Exile on Main Street covers. But I don't think SY ever got far with the Beatles project.

That 1972 Who record would have been my favorite 70s work of theirs, had they put it together. Are there Who recordings of those two stray tracks?

I don't know; it's possible/likely, but their archives are a mess (missing multitrack masters and such). However, some of the tracks that have been surfaced in the reissue program were previously thought not to exist, so there's hope.

Pete's demo of "Riot In The Female Jail" (aka, "Women's Liberation") is pretty great, but naturally it only hints at what the rest of the Who might've done with it:
http://youtu.be/j15RmCZ7Tnw

Cardiacs - LSD, folks.

Lip$ha

speaking of the Who - LIFEHOUSE

Yeah, some of the songs on the 1972 record had been written for Lifehouse/Who's Next. "Pure and Easy" and "Time Is Passing" were recorded in 1971 and considered for WN, whereas the rest were recorded in 1972.

The Who felt that the '72 album didn't compare favorably to WN, or hang together well as an album, which is why it was scrapped and (mostly) released piecemeal.

Speaking of The Sundays, can we use this thread to dispel non-album rumors? I heard in the nineties, before there was really any method of checking things out, that at the final Sundays live show the band came out onstage, but instead of picking up instruments they instead started throwing out cans of spray paint to the crowd and encouraged them to decorate the venue with any art of their choosing.

It sounds ridiculous, especially coming from a band as mild-mannered as The Sundays, but also maybe believable?

Also, a lot of completed albums that took forever to be or never were released--Black Bastards, that Saigon album, Large Professor- The Album}

Back in 2007, Eve was supposed to release her 4th album, titled Here I Am. It was even reviewed by XXL, but ultimately it was never released. Apparently that album eventually morpher into Lip Lock, released 6 years later, but most of the tracks mentioned in that XXL review aren't on the new album.

Also, the Stat Quo album that was supposedly produced by Dr. Dre never materialized. He eventually released his debut in 2010, but apparently it has none of the tracks originally recorded for the album that was supposed to come out in 2003.

Prince has seventeen unreleased projects (with varying degrees of overlap), and that's not including live records or collaborations:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreleased_Prince_projects

For a second there I thought there was a rumoured Status Quo album produced by Dr Dre.

"Untitled Kevin Smith-directed documentary"

oh man

xp

Thinking that a unified and conceptually rigorous version of The Who, with the four album run of Sell Out, Tommy, Lifehouse, and Quadrophenia would have been much less interesting than what history provided, even were it all the same material

IIRC Prince was also supposed to release an album of instrumental classical music at some point... Or did that one actually come out?

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Still got a Q-Tip promo somewhere, which somehow never did come out, far as I know---it's good, but I'm blanking on the title (from around 2000?) Some albums are waylaid by the artist, like Prince pulled The Black Album, at the very last second, with the warehouses full (or so a distributor told me). Instant Result: his very own, very classic bootleg (of course, he did release some of the tracks here and there).
Seger waylaid the collected 60s singles (had a cassette promo, but it broke; years and years later, ilxor Myonga posted it, yay)

(of course, he did release some of the tracks here and there).

and then of course he just released the album. (or at least his label did!)

Still got a Q-Tip promo somewhere, which somehow never did come out, far as I know---it's good, but I'm blanking on the title (from around 2000?)

This one? It did eventually come out, 8 years after the original release date.

Yeah, WB had a Black Album fire sale about the same time Prince left the label. Wikipedia says it was a limited pressing, which I never realized because it was in used cd bins in high numbers for the rest of the 90s.

Q-Tip also had a second unreleased album, Open, from around 2005 that remains unreleased, but "Kamaal / The Abstract" is generally the more talked about one.

Missy Elliott 'Block Party' - just can't pull the trigger, it seems. shades of Detox.

Duran Duran 'Reportage' - their political album. post-Astronaut, pre-Timbaland. Track names include: "Criminals in the Capitol" (yes... capitOl)..."Judy, Where Are You" and "Transcendental Mental". They were also working on an album called 'Trance Punk' before John left. TRANCE PUNK.

Honestly I keep forgetting that Duran Duran are still a going concern.

The Q-Tip promo was a CD-R, don't think the title was that long (though in little bitty Chuck Eddy letters), but think it must've been Kamaal/The Abstract--just now looked up the originally projected release date (2002, right?); sounds right. Yeah, The Black Album was eventually released in full; was almost as easily available while still boot. I got my translucent orangeade vinyl for $8.00. Great album!

The Q-Tip was also sonic tonic.

Wait, John left Duran Duran? Their last album was pretty good.

Left them for a spell at the end of the 90s. Trance Punk was 95/96 or so.

...later released as Pop under the name U2.

Tony Bennett said he had something like 50 unreleased albums. But he said it as if that were nothing, because he bangs them out constantly.

that's not all he bangs out constantly

The 1969 album Sinatra Jobim, intended follow-up to their 1967 album, was ready to ship when Sinatra had it pulled because he was dissatisfied with several of the performances. The 8-track tape had already been shipped to several distributors, so a few copies escaped the recall.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5c/SinatraJobim69cover.jpg/220px-SinatraJobim69cover.jpg

Thinking that a unified and conceptually rigorous version of The Who, with the four album run of Sell Out, Tommy, Lifehouse, and Quadrophenia would have been much less interesting than what history provided, even were it all the same material

― juggulo for the complete klvtz (bendy), Friday, July 18, 2014 5:49 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Agreed. I sometimes think they should've (could've) almost been a 70s CCR, constantly churning out brilliant singles...in fact, they seemed to take a shot at that in late '71/'72 with the run of "Let's See Action" - "Join Together" - "The Relay," but unfortunately none were particularly big hits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gUwG7CtqYY

The Dude

No, that one did come out:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/22/The_Dude_Quincy_Jones.jpg

god bless the wayback machine, found the fake smashing pumpkins 1997 double album stuff:
http://web.archive.org/web/19971210231308/http://www.smashing-pumpkins.net/news/newalbums.htm

Virgin Records and The Smashing Pumpkins are pleased to announce that
the band will release two new albums in October 1997. The first
album, which is called A World Turned Down will be more of an
electronic rock album. It will be released in the second week of
October and features 10 tracks. The second album, called Autumn
Nocturne, will be an acoustic album. It will be released in the final
week of October and it also will feature 10 tracks.
Here are the tracklistings.
The Smashing Pumpkins - A World Turned Down
1.Zoom - 4:20
2.A Million Miles Away - 3:55
3.Above It All - 2:53
4.Inside Of Me - 4:14
5.Ugly Beautiful - 1:59
6.Dark Times (Duet w/ Marilyn Manson) - 5:01
7.Trained To Lose - 6:16
8.Domino (We All Fall Down) - 4:11
9.Die - 9:52
10.So Empty Inside - 3:45

The Smashing Pumpkins - Autumn Nocturne
1.Sheep - 3:35
2.Under The Clouds - 5:13
3.Autumn Nocturne - 1:19
4.Looking Back, Looking Ahead - 4:50
5.Wishing You Were - 4:23
6.Tranquility - 5:11
7.Here And There And Back Again - 6:00
8.Nightlife - 4:44
9.Why - 3:59
10.Mermaid - 5:57
OTHER INFORMATION
There will be singles released from both albums. The first single
from A World Turned Down will be Dark Times. This song features both
Billy Corgan and Marilyn Manson on vocals. The first single from
Autumn Nocturne will be Wishing You Were.
Fairy (Billy Corgan's side project with Marilyn Manson, Twiggy Ramerez
and Chris Vrenna) will be releasing a self titled 5 song EP on both
the Nothing/Interscope and Virgin record labels. This means that both
labels have rights to the record.
James Iha will be releasing a solo album on Scratchie Records. More
info will posted soon at the Scratchie website.
More information about the new Smashing Pumpkins records can be found
at the Virgin Records website (www.virginrecords.com) starting June 25.
Bob Van Gretch
Public Relations
Virgin Records
www.virginrecords.com
vir✧✧✧@me✧✧✧.virginreco✧✧✧.c✧✧

lol, some aspects of that are such good fakery, like a 1:19 interlude called "Autumn Nocturne," some of the rest is sooo hacky. Duet with Marilyn Manson, yeah right.

Lucinda Williams' Car Wheels on a Gravel Road was 90% finished before she fell out with the producer and redid the entire album. The first version leaked and is a lame piece of work compared to the released version.

Didn't something like that happen with U2 and Rick Rubin before No Line on the Horizon?

The mind boggles..

Tapeworm, a Keenan/Reznor joint:

http://38.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljt7unqhs31qdhqwwo1_500.jpg

With Teeth also started out as a Rick Rubin (co-)production called Bleedthrough. And then there's Strobe Light...

"I'm finding EMI/Virgin seem to have a lot of scheduling conflicts this year, which has put an awful lot on the back burner. Toy is finished and ready to go, and I will make an announcement as soon as I get a very real date.. "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy_(David_Bowie_album)

Neil Young – Chrome Dreams

Neil Young - Toast